Sectional bookcase.



No. 789,579. PATENTED MAY 9, 1905.

F. W. TOBEY.

SEGTIONAL BOOKGASE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 30. 1905.

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FRED W. TOBEY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, lYlIClllCi-AN.

SECTIONAL BOOKGASIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 789,579, dated. May 9, 1905.

Application filed January 30, 1905. Serial No. 243,332.

To all whom it In/(Ly concern.-

Bc itknown thatI, Fern) W. Toner, acitizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sectional Bookcases, of which the following is a SpOCii'iCttlZiOn.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in detachabl y connecting together abutting ends of sections of sectional bookcases and other analogous articles of furniture; and the invention consists in the com bination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The objects of my invention are, first, to furnish an efiicient means for temporarily attaching together two sections of furniture by means of binding-strips securely attached to the sections and provided with interlocking means for attaching the sections; second, to furnish a locking-strip which can be readily and securely attached to the end of the section of a bookcase or analogous piece of furniture in such a.manner that it cannot be drawn apart or away from the section. These objects I accomplish by means of the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows an inverted plan view of two sections of a bookcase locked together with my binding-strips. Fig. 2 shows a bottom perspective view of a portion of the bookcase, together with one of the binding-strips partly applied.

In the drawings I have shown the sections of a bookcase of ordinary avell-known con- B B show the two bottom strips of an abutting bookcase-section, the position ofthe bookcase-sections when locked together being shown in Fig. 1.

C and D are the bimling-strips which in the example of my invention shown in the drawings are constructed of metal, each binding strip being provided with a front end bent substantially at right angles, as shown by I, and the rear end bent also substantially at right angles, (shown by 1:1,) for the purpose of engaging more securely with the section of a bookcase. The binding-strip (l is provided with a male dovetail E, which is adapted to engage with the dovetail F on the bindingstrip il The construction as above described is of the ordinary form; but each of the binding strips provided with an arm, preferably formed in hook shape, as shown by G in the drawings.

The end of the bookcase-section is shown by J, and Gr shows the slot in one of the strips A, with which the hook-shaped arm G- engages.

In applying the strip it may be placed in the shape shown in Fig. 2, the part I engaging with the front of the section of the caseatits bottom. Then by lowering the opposite end of the binding-strip it will engage the arm or hook-piece (Jr with the slot G of one of the longitudinal strips A, and thus securely retain the binding-strip in place on the end of the section to which it is applied without any pins or rivets or screws except at the front and rear ends of the binding-strip. These binding-strips are used to attach together the ends of sectional bookcases which abut each other, and sometimes a large number of sectionsare placed together, so that there is considerable strain upon these bindingstrips, which has a tendency to pull the binding-strips from the section to which they are applied. By the use of the lateral retaining fastening-piece G, which is adapted to engage securely with the case, the binding-strip is securely held in position, so that it cannot be drawn away from the section to which it is applied by any ordinary strain.

2. In combination with the section of a sectional bookcase a binding-strip D secured to the end of the section and provided with a lateral extension G engaging With the bottom of the section.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FRED W. TOBEY. Witnesses:

EDWARD TAGGART, MARY S. TooKER. 

